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...Theo, as he likes to call himself. Frustrated by the failure of conventional therapies--ice packs, anti-inflammatory agents and surgery--to relieve his own osteoarthritis, he began looking for alternatives. After only two weeks on the supplements, taken in "synergistic" combination, he felt so much better that he quit anti-inflammatories entirely and started spreading the word among his family and patients. Some pet owners have even begun dosing themselves with pills prescribed for their aging dogs...
...anyone deserves an award, it is Ali; his charisma makes the film. A preacher whose fans are his congregation, he exhorts children to "Quit eatin' candy ... We must whup Mr. Tooth Decay." He hectors in poetry: "If you think the world was surprised when Nixon resigned,/Just wait till I kick Foreman's behind." Some reporters, like George Plimpton, suspected that Ali's smiles camouflaged his fear of the big, punishing champ...
...first day can seem an eternity. Now, researchers studying the effectiveness of the nicotine patch are placing odds on whether your first tobacco-free 24 hours will really last forever. Researchers at Duke University Medical Center and the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center studied 200 smokers who buttressed their "quit day" by starting on a nicotine patch program. Those who broke down and cheated that first day were "10 times more likely to be smoking" in the long run, said one of the researchers, Dr. Eric Westman of Durham, N.C. "This finding contradicts the common idea that people can cheat...
...when Congress reauthorized funding for Head Start, the 32-year-old program that brings three-, four- and five- year-olds into classroom settings in part to prepare them for school. Mary Jo Bane was working at the time at the Department of Health and Human Services (she quit over welfare reform), and she led a task force charged with finding ways to improve Head Start. Child-development experts, she says, "pointed the group toward the importance of interventions earlier than age four...
...Democrat, Tsongas served two terms in the House, and was elected to the Senate from Massachusetts in 1978, but he decided to serve only one term because of his illness. With the cancer under control, he ran for President in 1992 and won the New Hampshire primary. Although he quit the race a few weeks later, his sobering message about the need for deficit reduction made its mark on the campaign and the country. Late in 1992 he co-founded the Concord Coalition, which has become an influential voice in deficit and economic policy...